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Faculty Bio

Areas Of Specialization

Ethnography in Education

Program Evaluation

Teacher Leadership

Charter Schools

Mentoring

Urban School Leadership

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education

Current Projects

Coordinating the Masters of Science, Educational Studies program

Ongoing research project about teacher-led charter schools

Training Northrop Grumman engineers to more effectively volunteer in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) classrooms

Coordinating partnership with Ner Israel Rabbinacal College

Research Interests

Teacher leadership

Effectiveness of teacher-led schools

Leadership development in urban school systems

Charter school effectiveness

Faculty CV

Education

PhD - 2002 Johns Hopkins University

MA - 1994 Johns Hopkins University

BA - 1989 Reed College

Job Experiences

Assistant Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, Johns Hopkins University

Special Assistant to the Dean, School of Education, Johns Hopkins University, 2006-07

Project Coordinator, East Baltimore Educational Initiative, Johns Hopkins University, 2005-2006

Project Evaluator, Project SITE SUPPORT, Johns Hopkins University, 2003-2005

Instructor, Department of Teacher Development and Leadership, Johns Hopkins University, 2003-2007

Consulting Ethnographer, Context-Based Research Group, 2003-2005

Staff Specialist, Department of Professional Development, Baltimore City Public School System, 2001-2003

Consultant, Blum Mentoring Program, 2000-2001

Publications

In press With Ralph Fessler. "Teacher Career Stages and Professional Development." International Encyclopedia of Education. 2d Ed. Elsevier.

1999 Review of the film Amazon Journal, by Geoffrey O'Connor. Visual Anthropology Review, 14 (2), Fall/Winter 1998-1999, 108-109.

1996 Review: Review of The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomblé, by Jim Wafer. Afro-Ásia, 18 (1996), 297-300.

Selected Invited Conference Presentations

April 2009-"Supporting STEM Education in Secondary Science Contexts: and "Supporting STEM Academies Throughout Maryland: An Intergrated Approach," presented jointly with Anila Ashgar, Roni Ellington, Francine Johnson, and Glenda Prime at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association in San Diego, CA.

April 2005 - "Project SITE SUPPORT: Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining High Quality Urban Teachers," presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

February 2004 - "Reciprocal Reflection: Lessons Learned from the Project SITE SUPPORT Mentoring Program," presented at the Santa Cruz New Teacher Center's Symposium on Teacher Induction in San José.

November 2002 - "Candomblé as Fundamentalism: Racial Discourse and the Brazilian State," presented at the American Anthropological Association's Annual Meetings in New Orleans.

March 2001 - "Candomblé as Resistance: Intellectuals at Work," presented at the workshop "Knowledge Production and the Making of the African Diaspora," Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University.

November 2000 - "Order and Progress: The Racial Chaos of Afro-Brazilian Culture," presented at the American Anthropological Association's Annual Meetings in San Francisco.

Selected Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

2004 Senator Ralph M. Hughes 40^th District Community Service Award

1998 Dissertation Writing Grant, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

1995 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Small Travel Grant

1993 Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power and History Summer Research Grant

1992 Latin American Studies Travel Grant, The Johns Hopkins University

1991 Graduate Fellowship in Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University

1989 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Finalist

1989 Phi Beta Kappa